Local woman asks for Troy to take action after 14 sick feral cats found near home

A local woman is asking for the city of Troy’s help after at least 14 feral cats were found on a Troy property. The woman and her family rescued a kitten, who weighed just 1 pound, 2 ounces. Photo submitted by Deborah Farrah

A local woman is asking for the city of Troy’s help after at least 14 feral cats were found on a Troy property. The woman and her family rescued a kitten, who weighed just 1 pound, 2 ounces. Photo submitted by Deborah Farrah

Troy >> A local woman is asking for the city of Troy to take action in saving at least 14 sick feral cats that were found in distress near a home.

Deborah Farrah, of Sterling Heights, said she was driving through the Troy neighborhood to pick her mother up to take her out for a birthday lunch, when she saw something on the sidewalk.

“We see this little fluff ball on the sidewalk and it’s a kitten,” Farrah said.

She and her daughters found one kitten, sitting on the sidewalk in the rain.

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“It looked like the kitten had gotten attacked ... We couldn’t see his eyes and nose,” she said. “... He was so covered in mucus.”

She said they had to do something, so they took the tiny kitten to the vet. He is being treated for an upper respiratory infection, dehydration and very low glucose levels.

Vet bills for the sick kitten, who weighed just over a pound, have been about $600.

But Farrah, who works in Rochester, said that’s not the only cat on the property. There are many more sickly cats, some covered in blood.

WXYZ reports that at least three additional cats living at the family’s home appear to have upper respiratory infection.